OFFICE OF THE BVM.
Let us pray
Almighty and merciful God, Who, inflaming blessed Jane Frances with Thy love, didst endow her with a marvelous fortitude of spirit to pursue the way of perfection in all the duties of life, and wast pleased through her to enrich Thy Church with a new family; grant, through her merits and intercession, that we, knowing our own weakness, and trusting in Thy strength, may, by the gift of Thy heavenly grace, overcome all things that oppose us.
LAUDS
Ant. Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.
V. Grace is poured abroad in thy lips.
R. Therefore hath God blessed thee for ever.
Prayer as above
SECOND VESPERS
Ant. She hath opened her hand to the needy, and stretched
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